Julian Siegel

Award-winning saxophonist Julian Siegel has established himself as a powerful player and an individual writer on the flourishing European Jazz Scene. With the Julian Siegel Quartet, he has chosen to work with some of this generation's most distinctive voices to create an in-demand group featuring Liam Noble (piano), Gene Calderazzo (drums) and Oli Hayhurst (bass).

The Julian Siegel Quartet released their second album ‘Urban Theme Park’ in April 2011, the follow up to the debut album ‘Close Up’, released in 2002 to rave reviews. The music the band plays moves freely through varied sound-worlds and colours, from undercurrents of bop into electro-acoustic trance, from an acoustic quartet playing early-electric Miles to dancing West African drum grooves, searching ballads and joyful melodies.

"A dream team of London jazz talent...Urban Theme Park is a thing of charm and poise – in the best sense, a very English record. With such a knack for drawing on jazz traditions while remaining fresh and forward-looking, the Julian Siegel Quartet are the perfect illustration of why British jazz is turning heads the world over. Siegel’s tunes fit are a mix of fiendish, time-twisting grooves, building riffs and brightly hummable melodies, never mere blowing exercises, their through-composed nature gives them real drama and momentum.” Edward Randell – MusicOMH

"There's not a moment that doesn't fizz with ingenuity and imagination" MOJO